Remembering the Sting-Ray Bike (1963-1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TLaOU4g6wAComments
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Thanks Taft!
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Ahh, the memories...I would have given my left arm for an Orange Krate, but instead got a purple Huffy, and it damaged me for life...
One of my friends had an Apple Krate, with white tires and a steering wheel. He was the coolest kid in the neighborhood.
We thought wheelie bars were for pussies (didn't need 'em), and sissy bars were, well, for sissies...Good chit -
The nut cracker
10 speed or fuck off in our hood -
On Christmas Day in '72, my best friend and I got identical JC Penny orange 10 speeds, with little odometers attached to the front wheel. It was close to single-digits temperature, and we rode those things all over town, about 15 miles, IIRC...
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The purple Huffy was my first realization we weren't in the same class as the country club kids.Fishpo31 said:Ahh, the memories...I would have given my left arm for an Orange Krate, but instead got a purple Huffy, and it damaged me for life...
One of my friends had an Apple Krate, with white tires and a steering wheel. He was the coolest kid in the neighborhood.
We thought wheelie bars were for pussies (didn't need 'em), and sissy bars were, well, for sissies...Good chit
Moved up to a Schwinn Varsity at the next stage but it was already established where the Throbber was in the caste system.
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I got a purple Schwinn varsity and I became a man at 13
Until I was 16 and got the hand me down 1964 Chevy Nova
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Spoken like a REAL American Man.RaceBannon said:I got a purple Schwinn varsity and I became a man at 13
Until I was 16 and got the hand me down 1964 Chevy Nova
Haven't rode a bike since -
I got my one and only Schwinn as a gift from a college girlfriend, and then promptly broke up with her. Didn't ride it much, but I do remember being pulled over for speeding, and then almost got a DUI...My entire case to the cop revolved around "If I wasn't drunk, I'd be driving my car"...
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Was it a "Killer Nova"?RaceBannon said:I got a purple Schwinn varsity and I became a man at 13
Until I was 16 and got the hand me down 1964 Chevy Nova
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Man you Boomers had some shitty ass bikes.Fishpo31 said:On Christmas Day in '72, my best friend and I got identical JC Penny orange 10 speeds, with little odometers attached to the front wheel. It was close to single-digits temperature, and we rode those things all over town, about 15 miles, IIRC...
